More tomorrow about the fabulously moving christening of Miss Hannah Mead Gilheany, but I wanted to post parts of two of the readings which I just adored. Each godparent chose a reading, and Alison and Launa’s were both from poems I love and had forgotten about. Excerpts from each: “The Writer” by Richard Wilbur (Alison [...]
That’s my baby sister, Hilary – we are going to attend the blessing of her daughter, Hannah, this weekend. A friend told me something recently that I was astonished I didn’t already know: Hannah means Grace in Hebrew. How extraordinary that we were drawn to the same idea in naming our daughters. It is so [...]
“We have some happy days and some unhappy days, some great loves and barren spaces. We have this life, this instantaneous blossoming. Will I ever learn not to choose among its moments, will I ever learn to walk both its hollow and hilly lands?”- Ellen Gilchrist, Starcarbon Email this post
A rainy Saturday … Matt is playing in the men’s doubles in between the showers and I’m here with G&W. Wondering if anyone thinks the picture at right looks like either of them?Grey’s Anatomy season premiere was even more self-consciously “deep” than usual. But did get me thinking about McDreamy’s comments re: those few moments [...]
Damn – some kind of mojo I’ve got going this week. I had breakfast this morning with someone to talk about private schools and he tried to recruit me to work for his company. Monday I met with a headhunter and she tried to recruit me both for the job and then to join her [...]
Catherine Newman, my idol. Her past two columns have been so right-on I feel like I’m talking to myself (or to Jess) when I read them.Read this week’s here and last week’s here.Seriously, if I could sum up right now, it’s all about the happy-sad season and wrestling with restlessness. This time of year, with [...]
Sunday night. Always makes me feel slightly blue. I remember pre-children Matt and I got into a routine of going to the movies on Sunday nights, which was a good, albeit temporary, solution. Although now I kind of like Mondays because Anastasia comes back!Have interesting job interview tomorrow, but job is in Providence … I [...]
Weekend en famille, and we’re all a little tired of each other. Yesterday we went apple picking at Lookout Farm. Didn’t realize they were having some huge festival with bouncy castles and enormous crowds. Whit made it about an hour before completely melting down; we still don’t know exactly what was going on but it [...]
Chaos tonight at Full Moon. My Lord. May be our last night there. The big kids were crazy and LOUD and Whit kept running for the door … at one point literally one of the dishwashers ran and scooped him up and brought him back to me. Lovely. Email this post
Well, here I am! Friday afternoon, thinking I should join Abby on the blog bandwagon. Need to figure out how to post pictures. Looking at a family weekend … perhaps some apple picking tomorrow, dinner with the Biottis and Shachoys tomorrow night (en famille), Sunday who knows. Kicking off the weekend in 3 hours with [...]
